Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingyun, a transmigrator with blocked meridians, envied Xiao Yan’s talent and lamented his lack of a Golden Finger. As Xiao Yan worried about his fading Dou Qi, Lin Qingyun’s Myriad Worlds Check-in System activated and sent him his first reward.

• Lin Qingyun watched Xiao Yan practice a Fighting Skill and reflected on how their lives as transmigrators had diverged.
• Lin Qingyun recalled that he had spent eight years unable to cultivate, while using his knowledge to strengthen the Xiao family’s finances.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Qingyun why his cultivated Dou Qi kept disappearing and worried about the test seven days away.
• The Myriad Worlds Check-in System bound itself to Lin Qingyun, awarded him an incomplete improved Dragonless Heart Method, and named Xiao Family Hall as his next check-in location.

Lin Qingyun received the Dragonless Heart Method inheritance, which opened his blocked meridians and gave him the chance to cultivate. Xiao Zhan confirmed that Lin Qingyun could now cultivate normally, but suspected he had taken a Pulse Breaking Pill and wondered who had provided it.

• Lin Qingyun discovered the Myriad Worlds Check-in System had granted him an incomplete Dragonless Heart Method and decided to focus on cultivation.
• Fourth Elder offered Lin Qingyun medicinal liquids from the Xiao Family storehouse, but Lin Qingyun refused and said he could break through on his own.
• A Jade Slip appeared in Lin Qingyun's room and transmitted the Heavenly Emperor's Dragonless Heart Method inheritance, including a warning to eliminate Filth.
• Lin Qingyun's meridians opened, but he collapsed from the inheritance's strain and fell unconscious.
• Xiao Zhan examined Lin Qingyun, confirmed his meridians had opened, and speculated that Ya Fei might have given him a Pulse Breaking Pill.

After waking from a three-day unconsciousness, Lin Qingyun used the Dragonless Heart Method to turn his past-life memories into his first Dou Qi and reached the first stage. He went to the Xiao Family's Fighting Skill Hall to begin learning fighting skills, leaving off as he opened a Jade Slip.

• Lin Qingyun woke up, learned he had been unconscious for three days, and recalled that the Dragonless Heart Method could absorb knowledge and emotions and transform them into energy or techniques.
• Lin Qingyun cultivated by drawing on his past-life memories, formed a faint milky-white current of Dou Qi, and reached the first stage of Dou Qi.
• Fourth Elder sensed Lin Qingyun's new Dou Qi and celebrated with him before bringing him food.
• Lin Qingyun declined an invitation from a group of girls and headed to the Fighting Skill Hall, where Fifth Elder greeted him.
• Lin Qingyun entered the eastern section of the Fighting Skill Hall and opened a Jade Slip for the Yellow Tier Low-level fighting skill Raging Wind Palm.

Lin Qingyun discovered that his meridians had opened and learned to cultivate by studying fighting skill scrolls, reaching Dou Qi Second Stage and combining techniques into a powerful claw attack. He left the Fighting Skill Hall with Xiao Yan, who felt encouraged by their friendship despite his worries about his own decline.

• Lin Qingyun studied Raging Wind Palm, gathered Wind Force into his qi, and began producing Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan and the Fifth Elder noticed Lin Qingyun cultivating, and Xiao Yan searched the shelves for a suitable fighting skill.
• After reading more than a dozen scrolls, Lin Qingyun advanced to Dou Qi Second Stage and tested Raging Wind Palm and Earth Splitting Claw.
• Lin Qingyun fused Wind Force with Earth Splitting Claw to create Fierce Wind Claw, leaving a deep mark in the ground.
• Lin Qingyun told the Fifth Elder that Ya Fei had given him the fighting skill, then explained to Xiao Yan that his meridians had opened after he woke from unconsciousness.
• Lin Qingyun invited Xiao Yan to celebrate, and Xiao Yan regained some confidence as he appreciated having Qingyun as a friend.

Lin Qingyun drew Nalan Yanran and Su Tao into his teahouse with a cliffhanger story, then arranged to charge them heavily. Three days later, he joined Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er on their way to the annual cultivation test, where they reached the Demon Stone Tablet.

• Lin Qingyun surveyed the Xiao Family’s busy street and promoted his teahouses’ serialized story about Xiao Wu and Xiao San.
• Nalan Yanran criticized the story, but Lin Qingyun persuaded her and Su Tao to enter the teahouse by claiming it was their last chance to hear it.
• Lin Qingyun secretly instructed a worker to fleece Nalan Yanran and Su Tao, and three days later Xiao Yan mentioned that the Misty Cloud Sect had paid over ten thousand gold coins to settle the bill.
• Lin Qingyun woke and went with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er toward the annual test, discussing Nalan Yanran’s visit along the way.
• The three arrived at the plaza and saw the Demon Stone Tablet where the cultivation test would take place.

At the Xiao Family’s annual cultivation test, Xiao Yan scored Dou Qi Stage 3 and let go of some of his despair after Lin Qingyun’s advice. Xiao Xun’er reached Stage 9, while Lin Qingyun shocked the crowd by testing at Fourth Duan, leaving Xiao Zhan intrigued by his unusual talent.

• Lin Qingyun comforted Xiao Yan before the annual test, and Xiao Xun’er also encouraged him.
• Xiao Yan tested at Dou Qi Stage 3 and endured the crowd’s mockery, then resolved to accept himself and reconnect with Xiao Xun’er.
• Xiao Yan thanked Lin Qingyun for teaching him to let go, and Xiao Xun’er happily noticed Xiao Yan’s renewed closeness.
• Xiao Xun’er tested at Dou Qi Stage 9, astonishing the Xiao Family youths.
• Lin Qingyun tested at Fourth Duan, shocking the crowd and delighting Fourth Elder while Xiao Zhan wondered about his unusual talent.

Lin Qingyun reached Stage 5 Dou Qi after cultivating through the night, then went to the Xiao family hall as Nalan Yanran arrived with members of the Misty Cloud Sect. He told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had come to break off their engagement, and Ge Ye stood to begin the confrontation.

• Lin Qingyun’s rapid progress astonished the Xiao family, and he celebrated with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er.
• Lin Qingyun cultivated through the night, reached Stage 5 Dou Qi, and rushed to the Xiao family hall to check in.
• Lin Qingyun recognized Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye among the Misty Cloud Sect visitors and explained their identities to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xun'er connected Nalan Yanran’s visit to Xiao Yan’s engagement, and Lin Qingyun said she had come to break it off.
• Xiao Yan clenched his fists in anger while Xiao Xun'er comforted him, and Ge Ye rose as the hall grew tense.

Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Family to request that Xiao Yan’s engagement be dissolved, prompting Lin Qingyun to challenge their account and defend Xiao Yan. Lin Qingyun proposed a three-move match with Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan resolved to be the one to end their engagement.

• Ge Ye told Xiao Zhan that Sect Master Yun Yun wanted Xiao Yan’s engagement to Nalan Yanran dissolved, and Xiao Zhan crushed the jade in his hand.
• Lin Qingyun confronted Nalan Yanran and questioned whether Yun Yun had truly ordered the annulment, then defended the Xiao Family against Ge Ye, Su Tao, and the First Elder.
• Xiao Zhan concluded that Nalan Yanran had likely decided on the annulment herself and told Lin Qingyun to stand down.
• Lin Qingyun challenged Nalan Yanran to a match that would last no more than three moves, and she accepted.
• Lin Qingyun warned Nalan Yanran not to lose, while Xiao Yan understood that Lin Qingyun was helping him and decided he would divorce Nalan Yanran himself.

Lin Qingyun fought Nalan Yanran under the Three-Move Agreement and used his newly awarded Chaotic Fire to stop her final sword strike. He declared victory, then collapsed after leaving the arena.

• Xiao Zhan began the duel, and Lin Qingyun used the Dragonless Heart Method to see through Nalan Yanran’s Thousand Cloud Phantom and evade her first attack.
• Nalan Yanran’s Mist Concealment Palm struck Lin Qingyun’s palm, injuring his arm and leaving him bleeding.
• Nalan Yanran drew her sword and launched Wind Tribulation Kill as Lin Qingyun waited for his check-in reward.
• Lin Qingyun received Chaotic Fire and the Taiyi Profound Pill Record for checking in at Xiao Family Hall, with Monster Beast Mountain Range set as his next check-in location.
• Lin Qingyun caught Nalan Yanran’s sword tip and melted it with Chaotic Fire, then declared that he had won the Three-Move Agreement.
• Lin Qingyun walked out of the arena and collapsed, prompting Xiao Yan to call out to him.

Xiao Yan confronted the spirit in his ring after learning it had absorbed his Dou Qi for three years, while Lin Qingyun reassured him that his talent had returned. The old man offered to help Xiao Yan catch up to Nalan Yanran and agreed to help Lin Qingyun too, but Lin Qingyun fled before he could be drawn in.

• Xiao Yan lamented his humiliation and told Lin Qingyun he had divorced Nalan Yanran but doubted he could catch up to her in three years.
• The old man emerged from Xiao Yan's ring, admitted absorbing Xiao Yan's Dou Qi, and promised not to do so again without permission.
• Lin Qingyun told Xiao Yan that his talent had returned, and Xiao Yan demanded compensation for the years of ridicule he had endured.
• The old man offered to help Xiao Yan grow stronger, and Xiao Yan agreed on the condition that he help Lin Qingyun as well.
• Lin Qingyun recognized the old man's sly smile and hurried into the woods to escape, leaving Xiao Yan calling after him.

Lin Qingyun activated the Taiyi Profound Pill Record and met its spirit, who ordered him to memorize one hundred thousand medicinal herbs in three months. He began his training in the starry realm, where three months would pass in only three days outside.

• Lin Qingyun tried to control the Chaotic Fire in his Dantian but failed, then continued cultivating.
• Medicine Elder sensed Lin Qingyun cultivating and told Xiao Yan that his Qi Method was at least a mid-level Heavenly Tier; Xiao Yan accepted that his friend had secrets.
• Lin Qingyun used his Storage Ring to retrieve the Taiyi Profound Pill Record, but its first page drained his Dou Qi and pulled him into the book.
• Lin Qingyun awoke in a starry realm filled with medicinal-herb records and met the book’s spirit, who said he would train him as an alchemist.
• The spirit ordered Lin Qingyun to memorize one hundred thousand herbs within three months, explaining that only three days would pass outside, and Lin Qingyun began studying.

Lin Qingyun remained unconscious while his Dou Qi continued to grow, and Xiao Yan and Fourth Elder worried over him. In his strange starry realm, Lin Qingyun studied medicinal herbs and discovered pill ingredient substitutions as Xuan Lao watched, while Ya Fei arrived to visit him.

• Fourth Elder and Xiao Zhan watched over the sleeping Lin Qingyun, and Xiao Yan asked Medicine Elder what was wrong with him.
• Medicine Elder said Lin Qingyun's soul was healthy and his Dou Qi kept increasing, but he could not determine the cause without entering his body.
• Lin Qingyun studied medicinal herbs among the stars and worked out substitutions for ingredients in several pills, absorbing each discovery through the Dragonless Heart Method.
• Xuan Lao watched Lin Qingyun's progress and hoped he would bring more surprises.
• Ya Fei arrived and teased Xiao Yan before going to see Lin Qingyun.

Lin Qingyun faced Xuan Lao’s final test: making one hundred thousand medicinal herbs bloom on the Medicine Mountain. After spending countless years nurturing them and nearly losing his will, he saw the final lotus flower bloom, passed the test, and unsealed the second page of the Taiyi Profound Pill Record.

• Lin Qingyun finished memorizing one hundred thousand medicinal herbs, and Xuan Lao brought him to the Medicine Mountain for his final test.
• Lin Qingyun entered the mountain, discovered he had to plant a seed on each level, and began cultivating the herbs one by one.
• Lin Qingyun reached the hundred-thousandth level and spent one hundred thousand years nurturing the Chaos Green Lotus as his will faded.
• The lotus bloomed just before Lin Qingyun vanished, allowing him to pass the test and return to Xuan Lao.
• Xuan Lao confirmed Lin Qingyun could become an alchemist and had unsealed the second page of the Taiyi Profound Pill Record.

Lin Qingyun woke from his unconsciousness and, after spending time with Ya Fei, went to the Xiao Family Back Mountain to cultivate. He rapidly advanced through the Dou Qi stages while Medicine Elder watched with suspicion, comparing his sudden growth to that of a magical beast.

• Lin Qingyun woke to find Ya Fei caring for him, and the two shared a flirtatious moment before Fourth Elder interrupted them and invited them to eat.
• After the meal, Lin Qingyun returned to the cliff at the Xiao Family Back Mountain, where he found Xiao Yan training under Medicine Elder's Dou Qi whips.
• Lin Qingyun began cultivating and quickly broke through the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Stages of Dou Qi.
• Lin Qingyun drew in more Dou Qi and repeatedly compressed it, pushing his cultivation toward another breakthrough despite his weakening will.
• Medicine Elder sensed Lin Qingyun's unusual surging Dou Qi and wondered if he was like a powerful magical beast before resuming Xiao Yan's training.

Lin Qingyun broke through to Dou Zhe with unusually dense Dou Qi, gaining strength comparable to a Dou Shi but facing heavier cultivation and recovery costs. Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder recognized the implications of his breakthrough, while Xiao Yan remained focused on catching up and defeating Nalan Yanran.

• Lin Qingyun compressed his Dou Qi vortex and broke through to Dou Zhe, forming a vortex whose quality and reserves rivaled a Dou Shi's.
• Lin Qingyun reflected on the immense energy his future breakthroughs would require and vowed to pursue an invincible path.
• Xiao Yan found Lin Qingyun after the breakthrough, congratulated him, and agreed to keep it secret, though Lin Qingyun sensed their friendship had grown awkward.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that Lin Qingyun's Dou Qi could let him fight at Dou Shi strength but would make future cultivation costly, and urged Xiao Yan to take an unconventional path.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan to buy more medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yan complained that he had run out of money.

Lin Qingyun gained Chaotic Fire’s recognition and awakened its power, then learned that the Taiyi Profound Pill Record required him to discover alchemy for himself. He set out to become an alchemist after Xuan Lao explained that refining a perfect-grade tier-one pill would unlock the record’s next page.

• Lin Qingyun studied the Art of Fire Control and endured Chaotic Fire burning away his consciousness until he made contact with its fire spirit.
• Chaotic Fire’s flames surged through Lin Qingyun’s hut as he entered a vision of creation and destruction.
• Medicine Elder sensed Chaotic Fire’s power and wondered what kind of existence Lin Qingyun was.
• Lin Qingyun woke feeling stronger, learned Chaotic Fire was still in its initial state, and found a Qi Nourishing Pill formula on the Taiyi Profound Pill Record’s third page.
• Xuan Lao congratulated Lin Qingyun on reaching Control with Heart and told him to refine a perfect-grade tier-one pill to unlock the fourth page.
• Lin Qingyun prepared to begin his path as an alchemist.

Lin Qingyun visited a Wutan City Marketplace to buy ingredients for a Qi Nourishing Pill, but could not find the Water Attribute magic beast core he needed. Before leaving to visit Ya Fei, he intervened when Jia Lie'ao harassed Xiao Long and a young girl.

• Lin Qingyun entered a Marketplace controlled by the Xiao Family, where manager Xiao Hun arranged for guards to discreetly watch over him.
• Lin Qingyun bought ten portions each of the required Spirit Gathering Grass, Purple You Orchid, and Jade Lotus Fruit from Fatty Jin for twenty thousand gold coins.
• Lin Qingyun searched other large shops but failed to find a Water Attribute magic beast core and decided to visit Ya Fei.
• Lin Qingyun found Jia Lie'ao demanding compensation from Xiao Long and using the dispute to pressure the young girl into accepting his invitation.
• Lin Qingyun stepped in to defend Xiao Long, who thanked him and apologized for involving him.

Lin Qingyun defeated Jia Lie'ao and brutally injured him after Jia Lie'ao demanded compensation for his broken bracelet. At the Mite'er Auction House, Lin Qingyun spotted a slightly bloated figure in black robes through the crystal divider.

• Jia Lie'ao mocked Lin Qingyun and demanded one thousand gold coins for his broken bracelet, but Lin Qingyun challenged him to take the money by force.
• Lin Qingyun wounded Jia Lie'ao with Cracking Wind Claw and knocked him down with a punch, while Xiao Family guards blocked Jia Lie'ao's five Fighter Two Stars guards.
• Lin Qingyun struck Jia Lie'ao's head with the pouch of gold coins, then crushed his lower body as Jia Lie'ao begged him to stop.
• Lin Qingyun left the Marketplace with Xiao Long and his companions, who praised his strength and asked how he had advanced so quickly.
• At the Mite'er Auction House, a maidservant escorted Lin Qingyun to a lounge, where he saw a slightly bloated person in black robes through the crystal divider.

At the auction, Xiao Zhan lost the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid to a mysterious black-robed woman, while the three Wutan City clans bid fiercely over a High Xuan Rank Qi Method. Jia Lie Bi accused Xiao Zhan of responsibility for his son being crippled by Lin Qingyun and attacked him, but a stern voice interrupted just before they clashed.

• Lin Qingyun watched Ya Fei auction a Second-grade pill called Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, and the black-robed woman outbid Xiao Zhan to win it for fifty thousand gold coins.
• Ya Fei presented a High Xuan Rank Qi Method scroll, and the three great clan leaders competed for it as Lin Qingyun watched.
• An elderly man whispered to Jia Lie Bi, who became furious and accused Xiao Zhan of trying to stop him from bidding.
• Jia Lie Bi blamed Lin Qingyun for crippling his son and threatened Xiao Zhan before launching himself at him.
• Xiao Zhan formed a lion head of cyan Dou Qi to meet Jia Lie Bi's attack, but a stern shout stopped them just before they clashed.

Lin Qingyun left the Miter Auction House after Jia Lie Bi’s confrontation and met with Ya Fei, who gave him Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and arranged ten Water Attribute magic cores. Back at the Xiao Family, Xiao Zhan questioned Lin Qingyun’s rapid cultivation, and Lin Qingyun blamed Xiao Yan’s mysterious master before leaving Xiao Zhan to wonder about the alchemist.

• Gu Ni stopped Xiao Zhan and Jia Lie Bi from fighting, and Ya Fei demanded that Jia Lie Bi pay five hundred thousand gold coins for the Wind Scroll Art before he left.
• Lin Qingyun met the black-robed owner of the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, who told him to wait outside, then collected the auction proceeds from Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei arranged ten Water Attribute magic cores for Lin Qingyun, gave him a bottle of Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, and heard that he had become an alchemist’s disciple.
• Lin Qingyun found Xiao Yan watching a purple crystal bracelet, gave him advice about making a girl happy, and returned with him to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Zhan confronted Lin Qingyun about defeating Jia Lie'ao and reaching Dou Zhe so quickly, and Lin Qingyun attributed his progress to Xiao Yan’s alchemist master.
• Xiao Zhan let Lin Qingyun go after learning that the alchemist appeared unpredictably, and Lin Qingyun heard him laughing about the alchemist as he walked away.